Biogeochemical characteristics of sediment cores from a land – shore transect in the Teshekpuk Lake Region in Arctic Alaska, 2022

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This dataset describes six sediment cores (12 - 219 cm length) from different landscape features in a coastal permafrost thermokarst affected landscape in the Theshekpuk Lake region in Arctic Alaska. They are located in a transect from inland to coast, to describes the transitional dynamics between terrestrial and marine permafrost and thermokarst. The cores were drilled during the Perma-X Lagoon expedition in April 2022. The three unfrozen cores from a marine (MAR, 12 cm length), an intact lagoon (LAG, 31 cm length) and a thermokarst lake (TKL, 50 cm length) site, were all sampled using a Push Corer. The three frozen cores, including upland permafrost (UPL, 203 cm length), drained thermokarst lake basin (DLB, 219 cm length) and semi-drained lagoon (SDLAG, 183 cm length) deposits, were drilled using a SIPRE Corer. The biogeochemical analysis included subsamples taken in intervals of 5–10 cm along the cores. Parameters included total carbon (TC) [wt%], total organic carbon (TOC) [wt%], total nitrogen (TN) [wt%], TOC/TN ratio, δ¹³C [‰ vs. VPDB] , δ¹⁵N [‰ vs. air raw], TOC density (TOCvol) [kg/m³], and mercury (Hg) [µg/kg].

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.971246
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.971246
Provenance
Creator Giest, Frieda ORCID logo; Jenrich, Maren ORCID logo; Grosse, Guido ORCID logo; Jones, Benjamin; Mangelsdorf, Kai; Windirsch, Torben ORCID logo; Strauss, Jens ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 511 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-153.708W, 70.836S, -153.509E, 70.886N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-04-25T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-04-27T00:00:00Z